Newly disclosed cases show Beijing uses anti-espionage laws against Chinese nationals who leak documents to overseas organisations, which used them to ‘forge lies’ about forced labour in far western region, according to security agency.
Not sure what the problem here is. Even the article points out that the NGOs were seeking the information for the sake or manipulating the facts and fuelling a narrative, and that the people leaking the information were leaking it knowing full well it was for misrepresenting it.
Pretty sure the US would come down on you like a tonne of bricks for leaking any internal government information and data to Chinese organisations.
None of this is being done in the interests of the public, they're being done for foreign interests. Hugely different to someone like Snowden or Chelsea Manning who were clearly doing it for the interest of the American public having correct and real information and not at the behest and for the interests of a foreign state to push fake misinformation.
This is a report on a press release that the Chinese intel agency themselves put out. Seems that the Chinese government is putting this out there specifically to let Chinese citizens know that things like this:
The article said Han provided 19 documents, including five identified as intelligence reports, and received more than 120,000 yuan (US$17,458) in compensation. In early 2019, Han was sentenced to 11½ years in prison.
Are being taken seriously and investigated. Pretty wild that "non-governmental" orgs take actions that are indistinguishable from an intelligence agency :soviet-hmm:
Not sure what the problem here is. Even the article points out that the NGOs were seeking the information for the sake or manipulating the facts and fuelling a narrative, and that the people leaking the information were leaking it knowing full well it was for misrepresenting it.
Pretty sure the US would come down on you like a tonne of bricks for leaking any internal government information and data to Chinese organisations.
None of this is being done in the interests of the public, they're being done for foreign interests. Hugely different to someone like Snowden or Chelsea Manning who were clearly doing it for the interest of the American public having correct and real information and not at the behest and for the interests of a foreign state to push fake misinformation.
This is a report on a press release that the Chinese intel agency themselves put out. Seems that the Chinese government is putting this out there specifically to let Chinese citizens know that things like this:
Are being taken seriously and investigated. Pretty wild that "non-governmental" orgs take actions that are indistinguishable from an intelligence agency :soviet-hmm: